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Could Emotion Development Really Be the Acquisition of Emotion Concepts?
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D'Arms, Justin; Samuels, Richard – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Emotion development research centrally concerns capacities to produce emotions and to think about them. We distinguish these enterprises and consider a novel account of how they might be related. On one recent account, the capacity to have emotions of various kinds comes by way of the acquisition of emotion concepts. This account relies on a…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning), Classification
Interpreting the Early Language Trajectories of Children from Low-SES and Language Minority Homes: Implications for Closing Achievement Gaps
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Hoff, Erika – Developmental Psychology, 2013
On average, children from low socioeconomic status (SES) homes and children from homes in which a language other than English is spoken have language development trajectories that are different from those of children from middle-class, monolingual English-speaking homes. Children from low-SES and language minority homes have unique linguistic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Language Skills, Second Language Learning
The Ghost Condition: Imitation Versus Emulation in Young Children's Observational Learning.
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Thompson, Doreen E.; Russell, James – Developmental Psychology, 2004
Although observational learning by children may occur through imitating a modeler's actions, it can also occur through learning about an object's dynamic affordances- a process that M. Tomasello (1996) calls "emulation." The relative contributions of imitation and emulation within observational learning were examined in a study with 14- to…
Descriptors: Imitation, Observational Learning, Toddlers, Modeling (Psychology)
The Contribution of Mediator-Based Deficiencies to Age Differences in Associative Learning
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Dunlosky, John; Hertzog, Christopher; Powell-Moman, Amy – Developmental Psychology, 2005
Production, mediational, and utilization deficiencies, which describe how strategy use may contribute to developmental trends in episodic memory, have been intensively investigated. Using a mediator report-and-retrieval method, the authors present evidence concerning the degree to which 2 previously unexplored mediator-based deficits--retrieval…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Age Differences, Recall (Psychology), Decoding (Reading)
Treating Another's Actions as One's Own: Children's Memory of and Learning from Joint Activity
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Sommerville, Jessica A.; Hammond, Amy J. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Children often overestimate their contribution to collaborative activities. Across 2 studies, the authors investigated whether this memory bias supports internalization of the actions of others in the context of joint exchanges. After taking turns with (high collaborative condition; Studies 1 and 2) or working independently of (low collaborative…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Group Activities, Cooperation, Design
A Connectionist Account of Asymmetric Category Learning in Early Infancy.
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Mareschal, Denis; French, Robert M.; Quinn, Paul C. – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Describes connectionist model showing exclusivity asymmetries when categorizing visual stimuli, similar to pattern shown by infants. Examines asymmetries in terms of an associative learning mechanism, distributed internal representations, and statistics of feature distributions in the stimuli. Details test of model with infants, finding that…
Descriptors: Classification, Concept Formation, Infant Behavior, Infants